Frame for hand-mirrors.



No. 735,3 2. PATENTED AUG'..4, 1903. W. 0. HOWARD. FRAME FOR HAND MIRRORS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 13, 1902.

N0 MODEL I ing the glass of a hand-mirror in its frame; I

UNIT D STATES] Patented August 4, 1903.

WILLIAM C. HOWARD,'OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FRAME FOR HAND-MIRRORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ZBatent No. 735,382, dated August 4., 1903.

Application filed September 13 1902. Serial No. 123,202. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM C. HOWARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Frames for Hand-Mirrors and other Articles, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

The especial object of the present invention is to provide improved means for hold I but the invention is applicable also in conheld in annular sists in a holding-reed of less length than its groove, with a removable piece which fills the space between the ends of the reed, so as to hold thereed against removal until the removable piece is taken out.

The invention will be described and illustrated in connection with a hand-mirror and the features forming the invention then specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of a hand-mirror embodying the invention in one of its preferred forms with the frame partly broken away to show the construction. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 of Fig. 1.

Referring to said drawings, A is the frame, having the circular recess in its face for receiving the mirror B and provided with the groove a in the edge of the frame encircling the recess. In this groove a is .thereed 1), preferably of metal, but which may be of any suitable material, this reed overlapping the bevel edge c of the g'lass, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, so "as tohold the glass'in position to permit it to be removed by taking out the reed b. The reed bis of such length, as

ends 1 is filled by a removable piece, which consists in the form shown of a small sleeve or eyelet d, set loosely intoa recess in the frame A and held in position bya screw 6, passing through the eyelet into the frame A. If desired, the ends of thereed may be covered by a thin strip overlapping the ends. Such a strip 2 is shown in the drawings held in place by the screw 6. The removable piece, however, may be of any other suitable form and construction adapted for insertion and removal between the ends of the reed, so as to lock or hold the latter against removal.

It will be seen that my invention provides a very simple, cheap, and efficient means of assuring the retention of the reed in place and preventing its accidental removal, as the reed cannot become displaced and allow the glass or article held thereby to be removed, without taking out the removable piece between its ends.

What I claim is-- 1. The combination with an annular .frame and its holding groove, of a reed of less length than the groove, and a removable piece between the ends of the reed by which the ends of the reed are held separated, substantially as described.

2. In a hand-mirror or the like, the combination of the annular frame A having the groove a, the glass or similar article B, reed b in said groove overlapping the glass or similar article B for holding it in place and having a space between its ends, and a removable piece between the ends of the reed by which the ends of the reed are held separated, substantially as described. I

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing 

